Hijacker may soon return to U.S.

... get to the communist nation, he smuggled a .25-caliber pistol onto a Piedmont Airlines flight scheduled to fly from Newark, New Jersey, to Miami. After the flight took off, Potts brandished the pistol and told the pilot to fly the plane and 56 ...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/24/world/americas/cuba-american-fugitive-returning/index.html?hpt=ju_t4